{"id":22897,"date":"2015-12-20T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22897"},"modified":"2015-12-20T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:24:14","slug":"once-and-for-all-whats-the-best-rock-n-roll-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-whats-the-best-rock-n-roll-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Once and For All…What’s the Best Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so this is Christmas<\/a>…or, should I say, the Christmas season. For the last 2 years, Townsman Al<\/strong> has requested that we run a 16-song tournament via the old Rock Town Hall poll. For the last 2 years I’ve been tormented that the poll has been fucked up and stuck on some stupid question regarding Steve Miller Band and The Doobie Brothers. The poll is just one of a handful of features that I hope we (and by “we” I mean The Back Office<\/strong>) get to tune up before technology moves us any further into the future and people start telepathically communicating 18-character affirmations to a network of loosely connected music fans who somehow all seem to enjoy having\u00a0Joe Jackson<\/strong> tunes streamed through their smartphones.<\/p>\n

But enough of my yapping… Al wants to know if Rock Town Hall has ever…once and for all<\/em>,,,picked the Best Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Song Ever<\/strong>. I don’t think we have.<\/p>\n

Each year we retell the Best Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Story Ever<\/a>. We revisit\u00a0the Best Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Hairdo<\/a>. We’ve determined the Best Solo Beatles Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Song Ever<\/a> (sorry, George). And we’ve collected not one<\/a>, not two<\/a>, but almost three<\/a><\/em> volumes of A Rock Town Hall Christmas<\/em>, thanks in large part to the efforts of the legendary northvancoveman<\/strong> (who will be SUMMONED). We’ve even collected some of the Crappiest Christmas Music We’ll Ever Hear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rather than me continue to gripe about the broken-down RTH poll feature and continue suspicions that I have joined the War Against Christmas, how about we keep it simple and make a case for any one of the songs compiled from our past rock ‘n roll Christmas song compilations or another song that did not come up in the past, perhaps because you were not yet a member of Rock Town Hall. Al has compiled some contenders…after the jump<\/em>. If we’re ever going to settle…once and for all<\/em>…The Best Rock ‘n Roll Christmas Song we need your vote\/rationale. Don’t be a smartypants and simply list out a half dozen obscure numbers you are not willing to get behind. Choose one of the following or suggest a winner of your own devise. Thanks.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Contenders<\/h1>\n